The Corralitas Red Car Property was a private right-of-way through Silver Lake (Los Angeles) for the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar. The “Big Red Cars” ran until 1955 when the Glendale Line was decommissioned for freeway construction. For almost 40 years, a series of developers tried and failed to develop the Corralitas Red Car Property. It's not a park, it just looks like one.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor #1, January 6, 2015. We're on mudwatch for the lots on Riverside Drive near Gilroy. (Click on photos to enlarge.)The neighbor was rightfully concerned, due to the high volume of rain combined with the way a path was bulldozed, creating a perfect path for water and mud. This slope is in a landslide zone.

The same neighbor sent me a text regarding the earthmover that was working on the Riverside lots last week. "I saw them doing it. Didn't even take it [the earthmover] off the truck trailer, just reaching over the sidewalk pulling the hill down towards the street." Gee, looks like they were hoping to take out one of the few protected native California Black Walnut Trees (to the left of the mud ramp), "by accident."

Photo: Red Car Property Neighbor #2, December 31, 2015. Last week, after the earthmover bashed into the large tree at the top of the wavy staircase, Neighbor #2 sent photos of the lots. In the above photo, the light beige piles, a third of the way upslope, are piles of dirt.

When Neighbor #2 sent the photos, I checked the Building & Safety website for permits on all the vacant lots on Riverside Drive. None had even been applied for.

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Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
Contact: redcarproperty@gmail.com

Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.